Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been weeping at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 2 | It was clear that Thomas Grenfell had made more than his share of mistakes , it seemed that The Fine Leather Trading Company had been overspending on labour and without the expected turnover in goods moved and sold . |
| 3 | United have been tumbling into trouble over the last couple of weeks … last time they won was Denis Smith 's first match as manager … |
| 4 | Samsung has been collaborating with HP on some of the low-end PA 7100 widgets , which are ready to pop next month . |
| 5 | Leading novelist Liz North , author of Dames and Ancient Enemies , has been collaborating with GCSE and A-level English students at Harrogate College of Arts and Technology as part of the Live Writing scheme funded by Yorkshire and Humberside Arts . |
| 6 | The mystique of the rapid has been building since day one , and now , at cocktail hour , Crystal assumes demonic proportions . |
| 7 | For some time now a Canadian company , Delrina Technology , has been producing without doubt the best fax software , for both DOS and Windows . |
| 8 | In addition to playing and working for Suntory , Glenn and I have been helping with coaching , primarily with the forwards . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Bob Woolmer has been easing in bowler Dougie Brown at Sunday League level . |
| 10 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
| 11 | He is very pleased with the ‘ good meaty topics ’ departments have been suggesting for scrutiny this year . |
| 12 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 13 | Many of the farmers were older ( 45–64 years of age ) and had been farming since school days , with attendance at training courses their only form of further education . |
| 14 | Wales also filed a clean bill of health after their stint at the National Stadium yesterday with Mike Hall and Tony Clement , who had been struggling with groin and ankle injuries respectively , satisfying the medics . |
| 15 | ‘ Yuri 's been experimenting with bleach , ’ observed Anthony . |
| 16 | I may be a little bit behind the times , but over the last couple of days I 've been experimenting with voice mail . |
| 17 | I find the French development encouraging , for I have myself for years been experimenting with whisky in the cooking pots . |
| 18 | A sturdily middle-class society does not sit easily atop political immobility ; and , indeed , Taiwan has been experimenting with reform for the past three years . |
| 19 | So Trumbull started moving the camera in and out , and stopped the lens down to a tiny aperture for maximum depth of field ( he had already been experimenting with zoom lenses for the cockpit readouts in other sequences ) . |
| 20 | This time his powers of concentration were not helped by the fact that on a hot and humid Sunday afternoon in the Bois de Boulogne he was feeling awful : he had been wasting in order to ride Beaver II at nine stone ten pounds later in the afternoon , and was severely debilitated by a stomach upset which had kept him up all night . |
| 21 | Anyone who has been walking across grassland and has nearly trodden on a hare , will know what a shock it is when the animal suddenly leaps up and darts off . |
| 22 | Before we leave Glamorgan , a word of congratulation to Stephen James , who has been opening in place of Butcher and compiling runs with the kind of technique that reveals how earnestly he is trying to establish himself this summer . |
| 23 | The theatrical aspect was maintained to the end when it was revealed that the stranger had , in fact , been bidding on behalf of Dunlop . |
| 24 | ‘ The Cosmological Pictures ’ , which have been winding through West and East European cities for more than a year , arrive at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , at the end of next month , and Gilbert & George will be pioneering in China with exhibitions in Shanghai and Peking next autumn . |
| 25 | He had been appearing on television at the time . |
| 26 | For her last week , Cuka had been appearing with understudy Richard Franklin because Crawford had laryngitis . |
| 27 | For the past ten years , Frank Riding has been alternating between work with the Red Cross , and his quiet rural practice here in Britain . |
| 28 | Remember the riot that broke out at Leeds towards the end of the 1970-71 season when Ray Tinkler allowed a West Bromwich goal to stand , ruling that Colin Suggett , standing offside when the attack crossed the halfway line , had not been interfering with play . |
| 29 | The fact that a woman , Margaret Thatcher , smashed the biggest glass ceiling of all in 1979 and that women have been storming into business and Government with ever more determination and success than before , should point the way for the hospitality industry . |
| 30 | Who would ever guess from the benign expression on his face that just a moment ago he had been exploding with anger ? |